Lunar Eclipse April 2014

Monday night's lunar eclipse is the first of four that will occur six months apart. The next one is on October 8. In Monday night's eclipse, the occlusion became noticeable at appx. 11:00 p.m. The total eclipse caused a reddish light over the moon, from appx. 12:10 a.m. to 1:00 a.m. The eclipse shadow began to move away from the moon at appx. 1:25 a.m. and giving us the full moon again by 2:35 a.m.
The reddish appearance is due to sunlight from the Earth's atmosphere, where the light is filtering through locations along the Earth's terminator (the line between night and day), that are experiencing sunrise and sunset. So, essentially that reddish appearance is the coming from the sunrises and sunsets all over Earth, hitting the moon. Photography by Peggy Peattie/UT San Diego